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Yummy double chocolate chip cookies!!!

I recently received another Rachel Allen cookbook for my birthday! I really like her cookbooks because the recipes are straightforward and I usually have the ingredients. On top of that she typically has something interesting like ‘meal planning’, ‘storing’, ‘freezing’, ‘store cupboard’ et cetera in the beginning or back of the books which can be very handy! In some of my older blogs I have written about her recipes and books and my admiration for both.

So in this current book – Everyday Kitchen – I found this gem of a recipe. Double Chocolate Chip cookies – yummy!

According to Wikipedia the inventor of the Chocolate Chip Cookie was a woman called Ruth Graves Wakefield. She worked as a dietician during the 1920’s and with her husband, Kenneth, they bought a tourist lodge (the Toll House Inn) in 1930 in the town of Whitman, Massachusetts in Plymouth County, America. Historically passengers had paid toll here, changed horses and ate home-cooked meals. The Wakefields opened the Toll House Inn and Ruth cooked all the food and desserts for which she became famous! She invented chocolate chip cookies around 1938 deliberately because she was always serving a butterscotch nut cookie and wanted to try something different. So this chocolate chip cookie became the Toll House cookie. Eventually she gave Nestlé the right to use her cookie recipe and the Toll House name. Hopefully they gave her some free chocolate!